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Amazing Article Marketing

jhald — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:09:58 +0000

Have you been using article marketing as part of your Internet marketing business? Have your efforts evolved along with the Web? Have you notices how more complex it has become to get really good results? Article marketing can be very effective when done right. The question is how are you doing it? I want to tell you about something that seems to be working very well.

As you know many people tout article marketing as one of the best and cheapest ways to get your name out there, get known and get links to your websites. This is true, however, over the last couple of years the results have diminished for the standard methods. Once upon a time, just 2 or 3 years ago internet time, you could post articles that got syndicated to many article directories and you would just get traffic to your website. But now there are so many articles out there that your article is just another ad page for directory owners in the vast sea of pages on the Internet.

And, as you also know, the Internet is constantly changing and so must you if you want the best results for your marketing efforts. What once worked very well in not working so well now. With the increased popularity in blogs and in social networking it is evident where the attention is going. If you want to get under the noses of potential customers and clients, you need to be where they are. Sure, many people still find what they are looking for through search engines, but they are also spending a lot of time in blogs and social networking sites.

Now you should be looking to get your presence in all of these areas in order to have the best chance at getting in front of the specific people you want to see what you have for them. You can, if you haven’t already, set up your own blog with proper SEO practices and get involved in many of the social networking sites in order to get your message out there. And if you are trying to do all this you know how much work it is. And if you are not yet doing these things, you have realized how ineffective old-style article marketing has become.

There is a new system that has popped up that combines all the newest aspects of the web that the masses are flocking to with article marketing, and has shown phenomenal results particularly for being so new. This new article marketing system is in its infancy and just as the overall web, is growing and developing all the time. The great thing about this new system is that on top of integrating the nets currently most powerful aspects, it is designed to continuously change with the overall Internet environment, helping to keep your efforts producing the results you want.

Many new articles are showing up on the first page of search results and many at number one, just days after posting. When was the last time you had your article show up on the first page of a search? The way they do it is to offer much more than a traditional article directory.

Did you know that the reason article directories really want your content is so they can place ads on those pages from which they generate income. Now that in itself is not so sinister as we all realize that the directory operator needs to generate income somehow when they don’t charge us anything to post an article. But on the other hand we really don’t get much from the post, just a page online with little to no linking or socializing power. Plus, when there are ads all over the page your article is on many of the readers take off through an ad link without clicking on your link at the bottom of the article. So you gave the reader a little information and they went elsewhere to get more, not to your site.

In this new system, they allow you to have full control over the adspace on your articles page. You can put your own ads on it, your chosen affiliate products ads, you can sell the adspace or you can set it up with no ads, so your site link is all that is there. So, you get control of the revenue generated the page and the outgoing links.

Another aspect of this new system is that the article directory is a blog, not a static site. You know that blogs are getting a huge amount of reader attention plus they get much favorable attention from the search engines. On the net today, a blog page has become more powerful than a standard web page. So without even having your own blog you can now realize the power of a blog where readers can interact easily with comments, and you can comment back. Interaction with your readers has proven to be extremely valuable because as they get to know you they are far more likely to take you up on your offers.

And to add the icing on top, this new system does social networking for your articles. They help to gather viewers through various social networking sites to come to read your articles. If you can just get your arms around how powerful this is you will soon realize how even the traffic they bring in for another authors article also benefits yours in the same topic.

Of course if you add your own social networking efforts your articles will do even better, and in this system they show you how to do this as well, because it benefits the whole system. This is the closest thing I have found that is truly a win-win-win for everyone involved in the area of article marketing. If you understand how getting the most from your time and your money is of utmost importance in business and have been wondering how to get fantastic results in today’s online environment, this new generation advanced article marketing system may just be the answer for you. Have you been using article marketing as part of your Internet marketing business? Have your efforts evolved along with the Web? Have you notices how more complex it has become to get really good results? Article marketing can be very effective when done right. The question is how are you doing it? I want to tell you about something that seems to be working very well.

John Halderman is an on-line marketer specializing in the areas of personal growth and development. This includes helping marketers tune their thoughts and actions to best support the business success they want and to streamline their business and personal life for increased happiness and satisfaction. If you want more information about the article marketing system discussed in this article - Advanced Article Marketing

Effective Article Marketing

Dan Blackburn — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:11:00 +0000

Article Marketing Is Changing

Article marketing is one of the most widely used methods of promoting a website and making money online. It's not just those people submitting articles to article directories who should be considered to be an article marketer. Every hub on hubpages.com, every lens on Squidoo.com was put together by an article marketer. Whether they call themselves that or not.

Article marketing is changing rapidly with the advent of «Web 2.0», Social Media and social networking sites. What worked back in 2006 isn't so effective any more. But article marketing and marketing with articles will continue to grow in popularity and become even more powerful than it was back then.

Back in the day, you could submit an article to hundreds of article directories and everyone of them would give a reasonablly powerful «back link» to your site. For a time is was a marketers paradise, but you can see why the good times had to come to an end.

When something becomes «easy» it tends to become low quality. This is definately what happened to traditional «old style» article marketing.

What killed old style article marketing?

In my logical opinion, old style article marketing was killed by 3 things.

1. The proliferation of article directories on the Internet. So called «Internet Marketing Guru's» made it too easy for «wanabees» to own their own directory. This in itself would not have been so much of a problem had it not been for....

2. Automatic article submission software. These were the real killer. With all that spammy content being submitted to all those spammy directories, Google had to do something. The changes they made hurt even the good quality content and top authors. (Traditional article marketing is less effective for everyone as a result of this).

3. All the hype about making easy money with «Google Adsense» that has been stuffed down the throat of everyone in Internet marketing circles since 2005. Without this hype they would have been less people wanting to own their own article directory.

With all that unmoderated, duplicate, «spammy» content filling up the article directories, the «Big G» had to do something. So they stopped passing link authority from all but a handful of article directory sites. You can no longer use Article Marketing alone to increase your Google Page Rank and SERP's.

But that does not mean that you cannot get traffic from traditional article marketing or that it does not have it's place in your overall online marketing strategy you just need to be more selective about where you submit your content and more importantly, the content that you submit.

Dan Blackburn is the owner of the popular article directory article content king.

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Tags: Article Marketing, online marketing, social media, web 2.0.

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The Ultimate Article Marketing Revenue Sharing System

Dan Blackburn — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:08:30 +0000

AdSpace articles is a new concept in article marketing, which gives full control over the ad space in the articles to the article author. This benefits them in 2 ways.

1. The most obvious, they take all the money generated from the ad space directly. Having full control over the ad space, authors can even sell space within their articles privately.

The main business model of any article directory or «group content» site relies mainly on the revenue from ad space. Many sites are willing to share this revenue with the authors, but only one site (that I know of) gives full control over the ad space to the author... And ALL the revenue!

2. A less obvious benefit to the AdSpace articles model is the «elimination» of competing ads in your content. This is usually the biggest drawback of article marketing to the author. They submit their articles to other sites and within their content are targeted ads.

Yes TARGETED ads, unless you are PAYING to advertise on the site, those ads within your content will no doubt be promoting your competitions website. Your hard work is making sales for them! Sure you might be getting a piece of the pie if the site is sharing revenue with you, but it's nothing compared to the money you would have made if the ad was making sales for you... or if you were the «broker» selling the traffic.

AdSpace articles give you full control over what does and what does not appear along side your content. You can even remove the ads completely if you so wish.

To get 3 free ad space articles visit here.

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Article Marketing ? Don't Do This

Randy Wood — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:32:01 +0000

By Randy Wood

Article marketing is one of the primary marketing tactics alive today. The best part about marketing with articles is that it is easy to do and it is very effective done properly.

That is what I want to talk about, Article Marketing done properly?

I own and operate Article Bay Home, a word press blog article directory. I also use article marketing to promote myself online.

As I see people submit articles throughout the web, whether they are in directories, social networking sites, or where ever, I am seeing a trend that is causing a lot of peoples efforts to be wasted. If we are going to spend our valuable time developing strategies and writing articles, we want to get the most value out of our time and effort.

Make your marketing campaign successful by being aware of some of the most common mistakes made. Don't do this.

Unedited PLR Articles

While there is absolutely nothing wrong with PLR Articles, submitting them without editing them is not good practice. Many people will submit a plr article just as they received it. The problem you will run into is article directories, in most cases, do not allow duplicate content. You risk your submission being deleted, or your membership banned. Is it worth it? No? Edit your article and put it in your own words. After all, you are the professional.

Too Many Too Fast

Slow down! Be patient. Stop writing an article and then submitting it to numerous directories at once. So many people do this and they shouldn't. Doing this so quickly will cause a spike in your back links. This spike can be seen by the spiders as they pass through the web and they can mark these back links as questionable. All back links don't come from just directories any way, they will also come from those looking for good content for their websites. Webmasters search for good content. So take it slow and easy and let the webmasters help build your back links for you.

Automated Duplicate Content Software

Duplicate content software is great to use, however, automatic software can leave your article making no sense and unprofessional. You are a professional and you want your information displayed in a legible and professional manner. Go ahead and use automated duplicate content software spinners as much as you like, just do yourself a favor and go back and insure the quality of your content. Spelling and grammar go a long way. The best way to do this is to do it yourself.

Duplicate Content Same Site

Don't submit the same article to the same directory or social network. Need I say more?

Affiliate Links ? Spam

Article directories and its readers do not want to be spammed! Do not submit an advertisement as an article. Advertisements have there own place. Article Directories are just that, a place to submit stories, news, educational information, reviews and more. Submitting this information loaded with affiliate links is against most directories policies. Doing so can get you banned from submitting your information. You can also create a bad name for yourself to your peers. Don't take that chance.

Poor Grammar and Spelling

If you are submitting articles, even just one, that makes you an author. Your article submissions go a long way in not only bringing traffic to your websites and publications, but also as branding your name with authority. Insuring that your work is well written and clean with correct grammar and spelling enhances your readers desire to continue with you. A poor grammatically written article can surely detour your readers and detour webmasters from using your articles as content reducing back links for you. Be a professional, write with authority.

Poor Content

In writing an article, if is important that you use content that is informative to your readers. Your readers will be reading your articles for multiple reasons. They may be looking for information to learn from. They may just enjoy reading about certain things or they may be looking for quality content to use on their own websites. It really doesn't matter why your readers are reading your content, if you do not know what you are talking about, or your work is poorly put together, you may loose some or all of your readers. That would be devastating. Know what you want to say, research it to know it and display and portray it well. You will have readers that come back for more!

Randy Wood
www.articlecontentking.com

Randy Wood is an online marketer providing Tips, Tools and Training in various methods of marketing and self promotion. Visit Randy Wood at JRandall'sWeb.Com. Randy Wood is also passionate about Diabetes, as having been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes himself. He promotes Diabetes-And-Me to help others be informed about life with diabetes and have a place to interact with others.

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Keyword Research for Article Marketing

Dave Mackay — Sat, 10 May 2008 16:07:33 +0000

It's really important when writing articles for your article marketing to make sure you've included appropriate and relevant keywords.

You'd be surprised at how many authors write articles but fail to do any keyword research whatsoever.

If your article doesn't have suitable keywords relevant to your article's subject it's unlikely to be picked up by search engines like Google for real people to find when they search online.

If you're not sure why keyword research is necessary then you'll find this article really helpful as it's purpose is to look at how keywords are recognised by Google.

For example lets consider the keyword «Article Marketing». You'll notice it's in the heading of this article, the first paragraph and also used elsewhere in the article.

As an exercise I'd like you to go to the main page of Google and enter the keyword «article marketing» in QUOTATION MARKS into the search box. It's important to put your keyword in «QUOTATION MARKS» as it keeps all the words in your keyword together making sure they're searched for together rather that getting results for each word separately.

When I did a Google search for the keyword «article marketing» the results showed there are 4,160,000 different websites displaying this keyword. What did you get when you ran this search?

Perhaps your immediate response was... FOUR MILLION COMPETITORS... it's not worth my while trying to compete with that many for the keyword «article marketing».

But, what if I was to tell you that all is not as it seems?

Supposing I was to tell you that you only have 897 competitors (number shown in Google at the time of writing this article).

As an author producing articles for article marketing... Do you think you can do better than 897 competitors to get your article ranking highly in the search engines for such a popular keyword? I bet you do.

But, I need to prove to you that you only have 897 competitors before you'll believe me... Right?

Here's what you do.

Close down all your browser windows... and then open a browser showing the Google main page.

To the right of the Google search box you'll see three links... Advanced Search, Preferences and Language Tools... Click on preferences.

In the Google search engine the default setting for each page is set to show 10 search results on each page. But inside 'preferences' there is the option to change «The Number of Results per page» in a drop down menu to 20, 30, 50 or 100.

Select «100» from the drop down menu and click «Save Preferences»

You'll now be able to view 100 search results on each page instead of the standard 10.

Type your keyword «article marketing» in «QUOTATION MARKS» into the search box and click on 'Google Search'.

Notice in the top right side of your page the results will read «Results 1-100 of about 4,160.000».

Scroll right down to the bottom of the page until you see the «Goooooooooogle» sign with page numbers 1 thru 10 shown underneath each of the «o's» in the word Goooooooooogle.

Click on «10» taking you to the very end of the available 1,000 search results from Google.

When I did this at the time of writing this article the very last item was this...

Article Marketing - The Power Of Your Efforts - A Review

Randy Wood — Tue, 06 May 2008 00:55:04 +0000

Authoring your articles then publishing them on article directories and ezines is absolutely one of the most effective methods for promoting your business. It is also one of the most popular forms of marketing used. There are literally a multitude of directories on the internet where one can submit their articles for free.

Why should we submit articles?

? Article writing can and will help you become branded as the expert. Becoming branded as an expert in turn will increase your web sites traffic, sales and ultimately your profit! If you are not promoting profit the information you are giving to the masses will also find its way to your targeted audience. That includes any program you are marketing.

? Submitting your articles to article directories and ezines provides a way to get free advertising through your resource box, increases page rank by having links pointing back to your website and increases website traffic by getting your articles to targeted readers.

? People also go to article directories looking for content for their own websites. When they get there and find yours, they may use it. When they do, you get further links to your website and more credibility as the expert.

Did I say POWER?

Yes, I said power. As you can see above, there are very valid reasons why one would submit their article to the article directories for free. Now let me say this:

Why would anyone submit their article to a directory and pay for the submission?

Well, I call it article marketing with a twist. Let me explain.

People run an article directory for a few simple reasons. The directory generates free traffic for their promotions. They use it to build their list. They make money through the ad space in the articles. They can also turn around and sell that same ad space to the public, allowing the advertiser to control the ad spot for a nominal fee. This can all turn into a very nice income for the article directory owner.

Running an article directory is not for everyone. If it were, the market would be so saturated that the extreme value of article marketing wouldn't even exist. Yet it does.

What if you could take on the rewards of article marketing and those of the article directory owner without the hassles and expenses of running an article directory yourself? What if you could control the ad space that would otherwise be controlled by the article directory owner? What if you could sell that very same ad space and keep the cash yourself?

Talk about power! Power Articles! Release the power of your article marketing efforts.

Article Content King has the Power.

1. Become a member and submit for free, as usual.

2. Pay to post individual articles and control the ad space yourself.

3. Pay to submit unlimited articles and control the ad spots on your article pages.

4. Pay to post unlimited articles, control that ad space and then get syndicated to a group of other related directories, and control the ad space on all of those, as well!

5. Pay to Post? You get to control the comments to your articles as well, allowing you to create your own social network.

Article-Content-King has scoured the web and created a huge collection of quality articles. Our database of authors is 14,000 plus and growing with submissions of 2000 plus articles per week. Our Power Article Directory is in a blog format, making promotion that much easier.

Would you submit free articles? Would you pay to post Power Articles? Visit us today.

Watch this feed as I will be following up with Tips, Tools and Training to help you bring Power to your Article Marketing Efforts!

To your success:

Randy Wood
www.articlecontentking.com

Author Ad Space For Power Article Marketing

Author ads — Sun, 04 May 2008 19:29:09 +0000

Article marketing is about getting traffic to your web site or affiliate programs.

Here on this article page you will see the author ad spaces for ad placement.

The ad space size is only a recommended size. The size will allow you to fit your needs or can be text ads too.

If you found this page before you seen what this about go here.

What Makes A Good Article?

Dan Blackburn — Sun, 04 May 2008 19:24:24 +0000

The longest part of writing any article is the research. Many good article marketers spend hours researching what to write about and what keywords to target. They feel that this is what makes a good article.

But is it really?

I believe that anyone is capable of writing a high quality article, even without dong any real research. That includes dyslexic, D-average English students like me. (Yes, I have my work edited and spell check has become a very good friend.)

When I'm interested in a topic, I can write about it for hours AND make it interesting. I am interested in article marketing and learning how to get the most out of my articles, so I can teach the authors of at this site how to do the same.

So what makes a good article? Is it the time and research you put into your subject? Or is it writing about something that interests you?

It's my opinion that writing something from your heart is a better option. Your readers can «feel» your energy and enthusiasm through your writing. Not to say that you can't gain that interest in the subject through your research, but having passion is certainly going to help.

The professional article marketer takes his time researching what to write about and what keywords he wants to target. To him (or her) it's not just research, it's what he loves to do. He already knows what to write about and what other sites in his market will link to, because he has a finger on the pulse of the market!

Is an article good based on how you market it? Possibly!

How good of an article marketer are you?

I'd love to hear your opinion. Please add your comment below.

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Article Marketers LOVE When This Happens!

Dan Blackburn — Sun, 04 May 2008 18:24:41 +0000

Article marketing is a great way of leveraging the traffic and reputation of other sites on the Internet for your own benefit.

It's possible to submit one article to one site and have it generate thousands of back links for you, if the article is picked up and republished. Article marketers love when their articles go viral!

But the truth is, this doesn't happen very often. This is why submitting one article to multiple article directories has become popular.

An article has a better chance of «going viral» if it is published on a format that encourages a bit more social interaction... like a blog, for example. This allows people to easily comment, bookmark or even subscribe by email to stay updated on the article.

Wouldn't publishing on a blog format instead of a article directory be a lot more beneficial to the article marketer?

It sure would. That's why we made our «Power» article directory a WordPress blog. As an author, your Power articles become a lot more social and YOU control the ad space in the articles.

But did you know...

With a little help from my friends, we have set up a network of blogs, each owned and promoted by a dedicated individual. Each of these blogs are on a different C Class IP address and each owner is willing to give you control over the articles you submit.

What if it were possible to syndicate every approved Power article you submit to ArticleContentKing automatically on every blog in our network?

Pretty cool, huh?

That's right, your article isn't just published on one site, it's published on 10 sites (at least) and you control the ad space in your articles at every site.

Do you remember how I talked about reselling your ad space? 7 ad spaces in each article TIMES 10!!

For a limited time, we are making this very thing available at Article-Content-King. For just $47.97 per month, you can submit up to 10 Power articles per month and have each article automatically syndicated across the entire network of partner blogs.

Join Article Content King now, for free... then upgrade to GOLD

There are currently 10 blogs on the network... 2 more will be added in the next few weeks. Who knows how many will be added in the next few months?

If you are interested in being a blog owner yourself, there may be room for you to set up a article directory blog on the network. I'll be explaining the benefits of doing that in another post

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Here's how to make some real profit from your articles...

Dan Blackburn — Sun, 04 May 2008 17:48:35 +0000

Today I am going to talk about how you can use this pay to post system to make money from your articles.

The reason you are able to make money with your articles at this site is that you control the ad space within your articles. You may not realise this, but blog advertising is a really hot seller. It's the only product I have ever sold where people actually send unsolicited email to me asking if they can buy it.

Advertising space on a high traffic website, is a valuable commodity on line. By submitting your articles here, you unlock full control over the ad space in your articles for life. As more and more people use and promote this service (more on promoting your articles later), the value of the ad space you control will increase.

When you go for Silver membership at Article Content King you are able to submit 10 «Power Articles» for free every month. While others are paying $1 per article, you can post 10 for just $7.47.

In your account, you can control 7 ad spots in your articles, you set your 7 ads in dashboard and they will appear in every article you submit. You can change and update them as often as you like, and can display any type of ad you choose... (G rated Ads only).

This means that as you submit your 10 articles every month, you are also building up your own advertising network. With a simple copy and paste job, you can make any ad you want display on all the article pages you have created. The cost remains at $7.47 per month, but your network gets bigger all the time.

You can use these ad spots to display your own ads, or... you can resell them to the growing market of people who will want to advertise on your blog.

You «only» get control over 7 ad spots, so you can only ever sell to a maximum of 7 advertisers per account. But what you can offer those people in terms of exposure though your articles is worth a lot...

The semi exclusivity can also be a real turn on to a potential customer, especially if you do not sell your ad space to any 2 sites who are directly competing with each other.

With all the thousands (millions?) of people advertising in your market, how hard is going to be for you to find 7 to buy your ad space.

They would get a great deal and you would get over 900% return on what it costs you to run the ad space. Yes, it's only $70 but there is no denying that it's a 700% return on the $7.47 per month it costs own the network.

Now that's not bad is it?

Want to try it for free?

Join Article-Content-King as a free member here

You get 3 free post credits when you sign up. Just see how much traffic you get.

My best to you

Dan Blackburn

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